After a hard day of work with motorcycles, having fun in the mud, the riders were given a treat of some entertainment. At Rider Mania, eventful evenings contributed to long-lasting memories. This year, the spirit of music, mates, motorcycles and more will be ignited by well-known artists setting the stage ablaze with their live performances. The Artists that will be playing at Rider Mania 2019 are as below:
AGNEE is one of the most dynamic and widely appreciated music bands in India. It is the country’s most loved Rock Band with over 50 million views on YouTube and over 5 lakh likes on Facebook. Both hugely popular and critically acclaimed, Agnee is known for its hummable tunes, live wire performances and deeply-rooted Indian sound - with rock songs inspired by Kabir's poetry, Vedic and Carnatic classical music.
Agnee has won prestigious awards such as MTV Video Music Award, GIMA Award, Spikes Asia Award and Goofiest 2013. The band has also been featured on MTV Unplugged and The Dewarists music TV series. Since the release of the debut album "Agnee" in May 2007, we have released more than 50 songs and used an Internet-based free distribution model to gather a large following in the rock music circuit.
Agnee's music is a collective of individual styles of composing and performing: Koco with his Classic Rock, Blues and Indian influences, Mohan with his Carnatic and Hindustani Classical ascendancy, along with Hrishikesh on drums, Varun on percussions and Chirayu on bass.
Hailing from the capital city, Nash JR has gained notoriety among the circle of bass heads across the nation.
Having an ear for rhythm since young age, Nash began perfecting his craft of mixing at the age of 15 and has been promoting bass music since 2010.
Be it New Skool rap, Grime, Jungle or Trap/808 to all the way to Old Skool break beat hip hop, Nash knows how to seamlessly weave different genres together and create something fresh with his out of the box approach.
Shiny happy faces, feet worn out from dancing and a whole legion of new fans – few DJ’s can claim to deliver all 3 things every single time, but the man best known for reviving an entire genre of music in India – DJ SA does just that!
The country’s premier Hip Hop/Trap DJ, SA has redefined the genre for urban Indian youth and made it relevant again, not only through his music, but also his influence as a bonafide street style aficionado and discerning sneaker-head. Steadily taking his passion to a whole new audience, SA also collaborated with Levi’s for the launch campaign of their new range of Tapered denims.
SA’s instinctive mixes and a keen eye for trends ensures he is always up to something. Voted ‘India's best Hip Hop DJ’ at the inaugural VH1 MyFav Awards, he’s packed innumerous appearances at festivals like NH7 Weekender, VH1 Supersonic, Guestlist4Good, Red Bull Tour Bus #OffTheRoof, Soledition and Timeout 72. From enthralling audiences to engaging with his peers, SA has represented India at the Amsterdam Dance Event, ADE BEATS Hip Hop Panel – an annual international platform for hip hop, bass and beats.
It might surprise many that music rooted in the blues finds expression in India. It’s even more surprising perhaps that the flag bearers on the blues in India come not from its sprawling metros but from a small north eastern city called Shillong.
It is here that you’ll find India’s finest blues band, wilfully and happily oblivious of the country’s dominant soundscapes but at the same time enriching it with the triumphant sounds and grooves of the blues and blues derived rock, funk, soul and R&B. They call themselves SOULMATE and don’t bother asking them why they chose the blues because you ought to know better - ‘the blues chose them’.
Soulmate was formed in October 2003 by Rudy Wallang and Tipriti Kharbangar and their sound is a sonic canvas grounded in Rudy’s elegant blues guitar that channels Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and the Three Kings but also embracing every sound that Tipriti’s extensive vocal range could accommodate, from Koko Taylor, Etta James and Nina Simone to the recent addition of the earthy sounds of Khasi folk music.
The Local Train is a Hindi Rock Band from New Delhi who write and produce their own music. The band launched 4 singles over a year before releasing their debut album 'Aalas ka Pedh' in 2015. Their second album ‘Vaaqif’ was released in January 2018 which generated very promising sales and was one of the most streamed independent albums on Apple Music India.
Post the success of their albums, TLT witnessed a huge demand for their live shows and are frequently invited to perform for their fans all over the country. The band has performed at over 150 shows in the last eighteen months with a fair mix of clubs, colleges and festivals. Their YouTube channel is one of the fastest growing channels among the independent artists of the country with 3,16,900 subscribers and over 47 million collective views on 11 official videos.
The Royal Enfield collective is the riders band. Playing the classic rock and roll numbers along with some Blues and Jazz, they comprise of the playlist of the quintessential rider and explorer.
True to their name, Avial (a mixed-vegetable delicacy) blends Malayalam Poetry with Contemporary Alternative Rock Music. With elements of Indie Rock and Folk Music underlying an electronic feel, Avial’s music has overcome language barriers not only in India but has also drawn fans across the sub-continent and the globe. It has an increasing fan following, with a revolutionary approach in today’s contemporary music scene in India. The band members come from an in-depth musical background, with a diverse exposure of working with different bands before they could come together. In search of something more intrinsic, with a sense of belonging, Avial discovered and articulated the expression in their own mother tongue, dared to express their music with their self-titled debut album. Fetching a great name for themselves, Avial is one of the most sought after Indian bands today, transcending genres, justifying the term “Alternative Malayalam Rock”
Hailing from the capital city, Nash JR has gained notoriety among the circle of bass heads across the nation.
Having an ear for rhythm since young age, Nash began perfecting his craft of mixing at the age of 15 and has been promoting bass music since 2010.
Be it New Skool rap, Grime, Jungle or Trap/808 to all the way to Old Skool break beat hip hop, Nash knows how to seamlessly weave different genres together and create something fresh with his out of the box approach.
Sahej Bakshi, better known as Dualist Inquiry, rose to prominence in what was then an amorphous Indian independent music scene, capturing fans at the intersection of guitar music and rhythmic electronic dance, with a sound that soon came to define his identity as a live act. Tipped as the leader of the new wave of Indian electronica, Dualist Inquiry helped break down doors at a time when rigidity seemed all but certain to dominate independent music.
The next two years, turned out to be the most challenging, with his internal and external worlds colliding. In an effort to resist being compartmentalized, Bakshi burrowed deep to explore a new sonic playground, going on to write and release another full-length album, 2016’s Dreamcatcher, a more wholesome, pop-oriented album pre-dated regional trends and took both critics and fans by surprise.
By 2017, a pair of ambitious full length albums and headlining almost every major stage in India, Bakshi retreated into solitude with a conscious goal to learn and evolve. Eventually, the time away led to the birth of boxout.fm, an online community radio station he co-founded alongside DJ MoCity, a platform that is making noise for all the correct reasons and has rightfully become a pillar for community-supported initiatives in music. The inspiration garnered from this tangential area of work helped birthed a brand-new chapter for Dualist Inquiry.
Hailing from the capital city, Nash JR has gained notoriety among the circle of bass heads across the nation.
Having an ear for rhythm since young age, Nash began perfecting his craft of mixing at the age of 15 and has been promoting bass music since 2010.
Be it New Skool rap, Grime, Jungle or Trap/808 to all the way to Old Skool break beat hip hop, Nash knows how to seamlessly weave different genres together and create something fresh with his out of the box approach.
The Royal Enfield collective is the riders band. Playing the classic rock and roll numbers along with some Blues and Jazz, they comprise of the playlist of the quintessential rider and explorer.
Parikrama is a rock and roll band from Delhi, India. They have several live performances and original numbers to their name. The band was officially formed on 17 June 1991 in Delhi. The word parikrama means 'orbital revolutions' in Sanskrit. The band often fuses Indian classical music instruments like mridangam, tabla and flute with conventional instruments like guitar, drums and keyboards. They have been inspired and influenced by the likes of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. Sonam Sherpa and Saurabh Chaudhary are proud endorsees of Carl Martin effect pedals.
In its 2014 listing of "25 Greatest Indian Rock Songs of the last 25 Years", "Rolling Stone India" featured But It Rained (Single, 1996) by the band. This song was dedicated to the kidnappings in the Kashmir Valley, during that period.
They are yet to release a full-length album, because they prefer giving out their music for free. They have had millions of downloads from their site and other related pages. They did release a free multimedia CD of their singles and videos in 2001. The band does not have any policies against
their music being copied and distributed. They have made their music available for download on their official website.
